Essential Web Sites - (not
including Google, YouTube and Wikipedia)

www.imdb.com - THE database
for movies and television. You will never again have to say, “What was that
guy’s name? You know, the one that was in…”

www.snopes.com - The best
website for debunking urban legends, stupid email forwards and tons of other
misinformation. Check here before you hit the forward button.

www.archive.org - The Internet
Archive, a massive online repository of stuff. It can be broken in to five
sections. 1. The Wayback Machine allows you to search for a website and
a certain date and it will show you (within reason) what that website looked
like on that date. 2. Moving Images holds over a quarter of a million
public domain short films. 3. Live Music Archive holds about 71,000 live
downloadable concerts including the live archive of The Grateful Dead. 4. Audio
contains almost half a million recordings including audio books, music,
lectures, podcasts and more. 5. Finally, Texts contains close to two
million text files including many pieces of literature now in public domain.
These include everything from classics to textbooks to children’s literature.
Amazing!

www.ted.com - TED is
well-known for its annual, invitation-only conference devoted to "ideas
worth spreading" and for its lectures, known as TED Talks, which
originally focused on technology, entertainment and design, but have now
expanded in scope to a broad set of topics including science, arts, politics,
education, culture, business, global issues, technology and development. Now
all these talks are available on this website.

www.wikispaces.com - Create a
free wikipage that any of your invited friends can alter and share.

www.instructables.com - Instructions
on how to make almost anything. A great website at which you can spend some
time just looking or you can get started on a fun project.

Just for science…

http://spaceweather.com/flybys – will tell you
just when you can look up and see the space station or the shuttle fly by as
well as communications satellites.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod- is the
“Astronomy Picture of the Day” website. It’s always interesting and often worth
making into a wallpaper for your desktop.

http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ -
ClinicalTrials.gov is a registry of federally and privately supported clinical
trials conducted in the United States and around the world. ClinicalTrials.gov gives
you information about a trial's purpose, who may participate, locations, and
phone numbers for more details.